Syria's Tomorrow Movement

The movement aims to decentralize Syria and implement pluralist democracy. However, it opposes any partition of the state. The party considers Alawites, as with all other ethnic groups in Syria, to be an essential component of the Syrian people and called for greater inclusion of them in the opposition.

During the formation of the movement, Egyptian and Lebanese officials attended the announcement. Although the party aims to oppose the government of Bashar al-Assad, a Russian embassy official and pro-Assad Syrians attended the official launch of the party, along with the Palestinian official Mohammed Dahlan. A Kurdistan Regional Government representative also attended the meeting.

In early April 2016, the head of Syria's Tomorrow Movement, Fouad Humeira, met with Anas Al-Abdah, the head of the Movement for Justice and Development in Syria and the overall president of the Syrian National Coalition. Al-Abdah expressed the SNC's readiness to cooperate with Syria's Tomorrow Movement.

In September, Ahmad Jarba met with the leader of the Movement for a Democratic Society, representing the de facto autonomous administration of the Federation of Northern Syria - Rojava, in order to form an agreement to participate in the governing of northeastern Syria.{{cite web|url=http://www.alghadalsoury.com/2016/09/11/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%8A%D8%B7%D8%A7/|title=Syrian tomorrow and self-management stream are calling for a dialogue under the auspices of Syrian Arabic|work=Syria's Tomorrow|date=11 September 2016}} They issued a joint statement that "the monist powers insisting on one party, one flag and one nation are doomed to fail, and peoples are trying to realize their dreams for a democratic, pluralist and united Syria."

Weeks later, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported that a US helicopter transported Ahmed Jarba and Syrian actor Jamal Suliman from Iraqi Kurdistan to the Abu Hajar Airport near the town of Rmelan in northeastern Syria. After they arrived, the two met with the PYD official Eldar Khalil, along with politicians from other Kurdish parties in Syria.{{cite web|url=http://www.lcc-sy.com/2016/09/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161001120717/http://www.lcc-sy.com/2016/09/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D9%8A/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=October 1, 2016|title=Ahmed al-Jarba and actor Jamal Suleiman meet leaders (pyd) in Rmelan|work=Local Coordination Committees of Syria|date=28 September 2016}}

The movement also signed an agreement with the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change.

On 22 July 2017, the Syria's Tomorrow Movement, led by Ahmad Jarba, was involved in negotiations in Egypt between Russia and Jaysh al-Islam to implement a partial ceasefire in East Ghouta.{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-ghouta-idUSKBN1A805H|title=Syrian warplanes strike near Damascus despite ceasefire: Syrian Observatory|work=Reuters|author=Bassam Khabieh|date=23 July 2017}}

{{infobox war faction

| name = Elite Forces

| native_name = قوات النخبة

| native_name_lang = ar

| war = the Syrian Civil War

| image =

| caption =

| active = 2016 — ? {{small|(much of the unit defected to the SDF in 2017; its current status is unclear)}}

| ideology = Pluralist democracy

| leaders = *Muhedi Jayila{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0waNVg5Mg|title=Arabs join Kurds in fight for Raqqa قوات النخبة السورية تشارك في المرحلة الثالثة من معركة الرقة|last=ARA News|date=5 February 2017|publisher=|via=YouTube}}
({{small|overall military commander}})

• Muhammad Khalid Shakir{{cite web|url=http://www.almasryalyoum.com/news/details/1058317|title=قوات النخبة السورية: الأسد يخشى المعارضة المعتدلة|language=ar|trans-title=Syrian Elite Forces: Assad feared moderate opposition|work=Al-Masry Al-Youm|date=16 December 2016}}
  ({{small|spokesman and commander}})
• Muhammad Ramadan{{KIA}}{{cite web|url=http://www.all4syria.info/Archive/395747|title=Forces (elite Syrian) mourns the death of one of its fighters|work=All4Syria|author=Saeed Jawdat|date=16 March 2017}}
  ({{small|Saadallah al-Jabiri Battalion commander}})

| clans = *Saadallah al-Jabiri Battalion{{cite web|url=http://elaph.com/Web/News/2017/3/1140180.html|title=Syrian elite forces enter dignity stronghold city Daesh|work=Elaph|author=Bahia Mardini|date=26 March 2017}}

• Gathering of al-Baggara Youth ({{small|until August 2017}}){{cite web|url=http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=73900|title=The Gathering of Al-Bakkara Youth continues their battle and get closer to the hometown of the Sheikh of Bakkara|work=Syrian Observatory for Human Rights|date=10 September 2017}}

| headquarters = Al-Shaddadah Subdistrict

| area = *Deir ez-Zor Governorate

• Hasakah Governorate
• Raqqa Governorate

| size = 3,500 ({{small|self claim, March 2017}}){{cite web|url=http://en.hawarnews.com/the-elite-teams-are-joining-the-wrath-of-euphrates/|title=The Elite Teams are joining the Wrath of Euphrates - ANHA|publisher=}}

• 200–650 ({{small|other claims, April 2017}}){{cite web|url=http://aletihadpress.com/2017/04/14/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A8-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D9%82%D9%88/|title=Elite forces withdraw from the fighting fronts with democratic Syrian forces|work=Al-Etihad Press|date=14 April 2017|quote=The source also said that "the leadership of the Elite Forces said earlier that more 3,000 fighters will be involved in the battle to liberate Raqqa, but upon arrival at the Tel Abyad area, it became clear that the number of Elite Forces did not exceed 650 fighters, mostly members of the Shaitat of Deir ez-Zour.|access-date=15 April 2017|archive-date=17 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617111350/http://aletihadpress.com/2017/04/14/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%AD%D8%A8-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%AC%D8%A8%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B9-%D9%82%D9%88/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://arabi21.com/story/998172/%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A9|title=Kurdish forces surrounded the headquarters of the forces belonging to Ahmed al-Jarba near tenderness|work=Arabi 21|date=13 April 2017|quote=The size of the participation of Elite Forces in the Battle of Raqqa was deliberately exaggerated, adding that "the real number of the Elite Forces does not exceed 200 fighters, but the means of the units of media depicting the number of fighters that exceeds the thousands"}}
• 1,000 ({{small|Rudaw claim, June 2017}}){{cite web|url=http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/25082017|title=SDF alliance gains 7 battalions of Syrian Elite Force tribal fighters|work=Rudaw|date=25 August 2017}}

| partof = {{flagicon image|Flag of Syrian Democratic Forces.svg}} Syrian Democratic Forces {{small|(entire militia officially 2016–17; some sub-units before and after these dates)}}

| predecessor = Ahrar al-Jazeera{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Syria_Rebel_Obs/status/776850758041997313|title=All coming from Liwa Ahrar al-Jazira who fought against IS in Yarubiyah battles in 2013 and disbanded itself|publisher=Syrian Rebel Obs|date=16 September 2016}}

| successor =

| allies =

| split =

| opponents = {{flag|Islamic State}}

| battles = Syrian Civil War

• Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)
• Battle of Raqqa (2017)

| url =

}}

On 18 April 2016, a unit of Free Syrian Army fighters of al-Shaitat and Shammar, originally from Deir ez-Zor Governorate and the Hasakah Governorate and calling themselves the Elite Forces, declared themselves to be the armed wing of Syria's Tomorrow Movement and stressed Kurdish-Arab unity in Syria. The group claimed to have captured 3 villages from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 60 kilometres north of Deir ez-Zor. The Syrian Democratic Forces welcomed the presence of the Elite Forces although the group is not officially allied with it. Ahmad Jarba reportedly shipped weapons from Iraqi Kurdistan to Syria in order to arm the faction.{{cite web|url=https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/NewsReports/567033-new-rebel-force-battling-isis-in-northeast-syria|title= New rebel force battling ISIS in northeast Syria|work=Now News|date=26 May 2016|last1= Szakola|first1= Albin}}{{cite web|url=http://aranews.net/2016/06/kurdish-led-sdf-attracts-arab-fighters-syrias-deir-ez-zor-amid-growing-anti-isis-campaign/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625133926/http://aranews.net/2016/06/kurdish-led-sdf-attracts-arab-fighters-syrias-deir-ez-zor-amid-growing-anti-isis-campaign/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 25, 2016|title=Kurdish-led SDF attracts more Arab fighters in Syria's Deir ez-Zor amid growing anti-ISIS campaign|work=ARA News|date=24 June 2016}}

On 10 April 2017, a purported spokesman for the Elite Forces claimed that the group was not part of the SDF, would cooperate with both the SDF and Peshmerga Roj to capture Deir ez-Zor, and rejected federalism.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rudaw.net/arabic/middleeast/syria/100420172|title=A spokesman for the Syrian Elite Forces: We are not part of "intentionally" and are open to the Peshmerga, "Rogge"|work=Rudaw|date=10 April 2017}} On 15 April, this statement was denied by Muhammad Khalid Shakir, the official spokesman of the Elite Forces. He denied any disagreements between the Elite Forces and the SDF and said that "We are in the framework of the international coalition. The leadership of the coalition manages the operations on the ground. Our troops did not withdraw. We have completed the third phase of the Wrath of Euphrates Operation, and we will participate in all stages until Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor are freed."{{Cite web|url=http://www.alghadalsoury.com/2017/04/15/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AC%D9%87%D9%88/|title=A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ELITE FORCES: CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS UNTIL THE LIBERATION OF RAQQA AND DEIR AL-ZOUR|work=Syria's Tomorrow Movement|date=15 April 2017}} While the Battle of Raqqa (2017) was still ongoing, the Elite Forces officially left the SDF,{{cite web |url=https://thedefensepost.com/2019/03/29/syria-sdf-kurds-face-bigger-battles-isis/ |title=ISIS's 'caliphate' was crushed. Now Syria's Kurd-led alliance faces bigger battles |author=Jared Szuba |work=Defense Post |date=29 March 2019 |accessdate=19 April 2019 }} though elements of the group continued to cooperate with the SDF.{{cite web |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/syriasource/the-decline-of-the-syrian-elite-forces |title= The Decline of the Syrian Elite Forces |author=Abdulrahman al-Masri |work=Atlantic Council |date=6 September 2017 |accessdate=19 April 2019 }}

On 25 August 2017, 800 fighters left the Elite Forces and were fully integrated into the ranks of the SDF and its Deir ez-Zor Military Council. The fighters accused the Elite Forces of corruption. These forces consisted of 7 units of al-Baggara and al-Shaitat tribal fighters stationed in the eastern Raqqa and southern Hasaka countrysides,{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-deiralzor-idUSKCN1B516W|title=U.S.-backed forces to attack Syria's Deir al-Zor soon: SDF official|work=Reuters|author=Rodi Said|date=25 August 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hawarnews.com/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B9-%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%A8-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B6/|title=Split seven elite battalions and join Syria's democratic forces|work=Hawar News Agency|date=25 August 2017}} including the Gathering of al-Baggara Youth, led by Yasser al-Dahla.{{cite web|url=http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=75395|title=Military police of SDF arrest leader of al-Bakkara Youth Gathering Yasser al-Dahla, the defected of Syrian Elite Forces|work=Syrian Observatory for Human Rights|date=2 October 2017}} By early 2019, the Elite Forces were still active, but had very few troops left.

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